Have action plans ready for decoupling in 2005, farmers are advised

FARMERS in Teagasc’s new Planning Post Fischler advisory programme will take part in group discussions and get individual advice on developing and implementing action plans.

Every farm family must fundamentally examine their production systems as complete decoupling of EU payments from production approaches, says Teagasc Director, Jim Flanagan.

They should start now, in order to have action plans in place when the new policy is introduced next January.